Here are some more pages from my warm-up sketchbook. They're about horses. Their skeleton structure in particular. Still 'copies' from Ken Hultgren's book.
It makes it a lot easier to draw a subject if you study and understand it's structure.
and for warm-ups I started copying the drawings of Ken Hultgren from his book 'The Art of Animal Drawing - Construction, Action Analysis,Caricature'. Here's me struggling some pages on construction...
I painted this one today. Trying to do the same scene, but then a wet, rainy variant. There's some things I like about it and a lot of things I dislike, but hey, its all about experimenting and learning some new stuff, so I'm gonna give this one another try. I think the main problem is that the contrast is way off, for it to be appear wet and rainy. Be looking at some reference, and then try again.